AN INTELLIGENCE MUSEUM: NOT 'WHETHER?' BUT 'WHERE?'

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e 2005/07/28: CIA-RDP93BO1194R001000200009-0 ~nqn c7nf~lli90n ce #ikraryc5clona A BIMONTHLY NEWSLETTERIBOOK REVIEW DECEMBER 1983 VOLUME 2, NO. 6 An Intelligence Museum: Not "Whether?" But "Where?" The idea of an intelligence museum has made so much progress in the past year, on two fronts in particular, that the question now is not "whether?" but "where?" In the first place, progress has been made in the U.S. Senate. There Reso- lution No. 267 supporting the estab- lishment of a National Historical In- telligence Museum was introduced by Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was given a public hearing on Nov. 3, and finally was unanimously passed by the Senate on Nov. 17. While the Senate action might strike the skeptic as paper progress, it clearly means much to the museum's propo- nents. Martin G. Cramer, president of the National Historical Intelligence Mu- seum Association, considers it a "most tangible" accomplishment, the pass- ing of a milestone. He says it provides an impressive endorsement that will be most helpful in soliciting funds and cooperation in many quarters. Like- wise, Geoffrey M.T. Jones, president of the William J. Donovan Memorial Foun- dation, calls it "the stamp of legiti- macy." That stamp of legitimacy was given even earlier, at that November hearing, when CIA Director William J. Casey, as the leadoff witness, spoke of the museum as "a highly important way of educating and informing the pub- lic" about the role of intelligence in American history. Other distin- guished intelligencers-former CIA chief William E. Colby, authors David Kahn, Joseph E. Persico, and Lt. Gen. William W. Quinn-added their own cachets. Noted book collector Walter L. Pforzheimer provided the committee with an impressive display of the kinds In Canada: John Sawatsky, Lips Zipped about One Book, at Work on Another Canadian investigative reporter and author John Sawatsky, called to court in Ottawa on Nov. 14, sat down, folded his arms against his chest, and refused to answer any of eight questions put to him by the Crown's attorney. Sawatsky had been called to testify at the prelimi- nary hearing of charges under the Offi- cial Secrets Act against an ex-Mountie once code named "Long Knife." (See "Will Canada See That the Mounties Finally Get Their Man?" FILS, August 1983, p. 1.) Meanwhile, Sawatsky, the author of two books on the Security Service of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), has let it be known that he is at work on yet a third book about the Security Service, which is the Cana- dian counterintelligence service. An independent source reports that the book "is claimed... [to] be as sensa- tional as his last one." It was the last one, For Services Rendered: Leslie James Bennett and the RCMP Security Service (New York: Doubleday, 1982), which triggered a chain of events that has led to Long Knife's trial for offen- ses committed no less than 28 years ago. In that book Sawatsky told the story of, but did not identify, Long Knife as a Mountie who betrayed to the Soviets a KGB agent who had gone to work for the Mounties. In breaking the story Sawatsky also revealed the story of the Mounties' failure to prosecute Long Knife for the betrayal. It was primarily this embarrassment which prompted Ottawa to take action against Long Knife, only recently identified as James Finley Douglas Morrison, 67, a construction safety supervisor from British Columbia. The case against Author CaHs CIA "Callous and Indifferent" on Defectors Vladimir Sakharov, a former Soviet diplomat and co-author of his autobio- graphical High Treason (Ballantine Es- pionage/Intelligence Library) has la- beled the CIA policy on resettling Sovi- et bloc defectors "callous and indiffer- ent." Writing in FIRM, the newsletter he edits (see "In the Magazines," p. 10), Sakharov says that CIA has so badly handled the resettlement of defectors that it is actually discouraging them or losing them to West Germany and Great Britain, where, he says, they re- ceive better treatment. Sakharov says the agency's attitude results in the loss of "a vital source of intelligence" on the Soviets. Because of some complaints from defectors (is there no better term for these welcome additions to our popu l a- tion?), their situation was investigated last year by the Senate Select Commit- tee on Intelligence, which recommend- ed some changes in the agency's pro- gram but nevertheless found that "taken as a whole, the defector pro- gram is functioning effectively." Even so, the Standing Committee on Law and National Security of the American Bar Association has, as Sakharov point- ed out, been looking into the problem. The committee's newsletter, Intelli- gence Report, contains an article by ed- itor William C. Mott (see "In the Maga- zines," p. 10), on a new foundation be- ing privately organized to help resettle defectors. The problem will soon be getting TV treatment. CBS's "60 Minutes" has been filming a program likely to be shown early in 1984. Approved For ReleaW '?k~~ ~(~f194RO 1 OO20T6309r?liminary hearing (cont, on p, 3) wats y s tes imony, and Sawatsky had has been adjourned until Jan. 24. NATIONAL ARCHIVES, LIBRARY Approved For Re "seVQQjffI $;8noC D0Wen94RO( 000200009-0 NISC and Georgetown University Hold Reception Some 100 persons gathered on Nov. 3 at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., to pay tribute to Col. Russell J. Bowen, an unusual collector of intelligence books. The occasion was the formal opening of an exhibit of books from the Bowen Collection on Intelligence, National Security and Covert Activities, on deposit in Georgetown's Lauinger Library. The event, which took place in the library's Gunlocke Special Collections Room, was jointly sponsored by the university's Library Associates and the National Intelligence Study Center (NISC). The towering, snow-capped gentleman at top left is Bowen. His collection, which now numbers over 6,000 books and documents and is constantly growing, is probably the world's largest publicly available collection of books on intelligence and intelligence-related subjects. Bowen delivered a short talk on the development of the literature of intelligence. Other speakers included Georgetown Librarian Joseph J. Jeffs, NISC President Ray S. Cline, and intelligence authority Walter L. Pforzheimer. FL Among the many who turned out for the speeches, the books, and the wine and cheese was George C. Constantini- des, shown at the lower left. His Intelli- gence and Espionage: An Analytical Bibliography is reviewed on p. 6. The price surely puts him among the world's highest-priced intelligencers! A particularly distinguished visitor was Clare Booth Luce, who along with Herbert W. Fockler, a library official, are seen at the upper right inspecting some of the Bowen books put on dis- play. Mrs. Luce is a member of the NISC advisory board. NISC arranged the publication of Scholar's Guide to In- telligence Literature: Bibliography of the. Russell J. Bowen Collection. Shown at the lower right in front of his own book is Marquette University historian Dr. Ralph E. Weber. His book is United States Diplomatic Codes and Ciphers 1775-1938 (Chicago: Prece- dent Publishing, 1979). It received the NISC award as the best American intel- ligence book of that year. Another distinguished visitor, unfor- tunately not shown here, was CIA chief William J. Casey, who was also seen checking the books, perhaps even his own Where & How the War Was Fought: AnArmchair TouroftheAmeri- can Revolution (New York: Morrow, 1976), which contains interesting sec- tions on the intelligence of the war. In the morning Casey had testified on Capitol Hill in favor of an intelligence museum. Publisher University Publications of America 44 North Market Street Frederick, MD 21701 (301) 694-0100 Editor Thomas F. Troy 6101 Rudyard Drive Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 530-3365 The Foreign Intelligence Literary Scene is published every other month (6 times a year) for a charter subscrip- tion price of $25. Correspondence regarding editorial comments and letters should be sent to 6101 Rudyard Approved c Approved (Museum. . . cont. from p. 1) For Release 2005/07/28 : CIA-RDP93B01194R001000200009-0 of books and documents which might be included in the museum. The other area of progress was the joining of forces of the two groups that have hitherto been working more or less separately in support of the idea. These are Cramer's museum associa- tion and Jones' Donovan foundation. The former includes among its advi- sors Colby, Kahn, Richard Dunlop, Lyman B. Kirkpatrick, Lt. Gen. Eugene F. Tighe, Jr., and Lawrence Houston. The Jones group is basically the Vet- erans of Strategic Services (VSS). The two groups, which have many mem- bers in common, have now set up a co- ordinating committee to work together on such practical problems as raising money and finding space for the mu- seum. To some extent these matters were laid out at the November hearing by Martin Cramer. He told the Senate committee that temporary and perma- nent sites for the museum are being sought in Washington, D.C., nearby Virginia and Maryland, and even southern Pennsylvania. What is sought is 12,000 to 16,000 square feet of land. Also being sought, in fund raising scheduled to get under way in 1984, is $2 million. The Donovan foundation, which has interests other than the mu- seum, has already launched a big cam- paign for funds. While the museum is a private activity, its supporters undoubt- edly welcome the offer of Hawaii's Sen. Daniel K. Inouye to "support any call for grants from federal departments." As to location, the most specific pro- posal came from Walter Pforzheimer, who said the museum should be in Washington and "in the hands of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History" and be "located on one floor of an exhibition wing." He saw this as "an ideal solution." How- ever, when queried about this sugges- tion, a Smithsonian Institution official, preferring anonymity, was not encour- aging. He doubted the basic viability of the museum idea, fearing even if it did flower it might fade fast. He also indi- cated that the Smithsonian, accus- tomed to being pressured for special- ized halls, thought the intelligence story could and should be integrated with a larger theme in American his- tory, in the present armed forcesexhibi- tion, for instance-an idea not likely to find favor with the museum propo- nents. The latter are convinced they have and the voluntary activists to put the museum across and make it a perma- nent attraction and education for the American public, particularly for the millions of tourists who annually flock to the nation's capital. They found en- couragement in the widespread press coverage of the hearing, even in the friendly spoofing of "a spy museum." The Case against Serge Bassoff by Peter A. Masley The Serge Bassoff case was marked closed by the FBI 20 years ago next July but has only recently become known-because of the release under the Freedom of Information Act of the relevant documents. The case de- serves at least a footnote in espionage history as one of the country's longest and most fruitless investigations. The Russian-born Bassoff first came to theattention of the U.S. State Depart- ment in 1922 when, unbeknownst to him, Bassoff was fingered by a pas- senger on a New York-Constantinople ship as a smuggler. Bassoff, so the passenger informed State, told him that the Soviets had a man in Constan- tinople who smuggled jewelry and other precious stones to Soviets in the United States. Despite State's suspi- cion that Bassoff himself was the smuggler, he was admitted to the coun- try. He was naturalized in 1931. Using his American passport, Bas- soff then began a long period of resi- dence in and travel to and from Europe. Twice he traveled covertly, but the FBI did not discover this activity until 10 years after it began its investigation. Bassoff told the bureau he had traveled to help members of his family. On one of his trips he went to the Soviet Union on a forged visa bought from a Soviet intelligence agent. Not until March 1939, however, did Bassoff really attract American atten- tion. Then the State Department inter- viewed Walter G. Krivitsky, a defector from the Soviet military intelligence service and later that year the author of the then-sensational In Stalin's Secret Service. Krivitsky said Bassoff had joined the Soviet secret police in 1920, came to the United States in 1922 as a secret agent, became invaluable as a GPU (later KGB) courier traveling in Eu- rope on an American passport, and was arrested in 1937 in Holland while trans- porting funds. The arrest was confirmed by the Dutch. On the basis of old information on suspicion of hotel robbery and, though carrying thousands of dollars, was released the same day because Berlin had lost interest in him. Four months after the Krivitsky inter- view, the State Department alerted the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover to Bassoff's al- leged espionage activities. The bureau opened a file which would not be closed until Bassoff's death 25 years later. In the meantime, the FBI, pursu- ing Bassoff off and on, used virtually every technique at hand: surreptitious entry, mail covers, pretext interviews, surveillance, etc. With one exception the FBI never got beyond the Krivitsky allegations and the earlier charge of Soviet smuggling. The exception, when the bureau thought it was close, occurred in Au- gust 1946. FBI agents inspecting Bas- soff's cabin on a ship on the Delaware River, found a "coded message." The discovery, said Hoover, "substantially bears out the allegations" made by Krivitsky. The bureau's New York office was told to "develop a discreet and secure confidential informant who will have access to all [Bassoff's] docu- ments and other material." Hoover also suggested the use of "technical sur- veillance." In February 1947 "a highly confidential" source, going through Bassoff's apartment, found another "coded message." When studied by FBI experts, however, the messages turned out to be passages from a Morse code practice booklet. In the spring of 1948 FBI agents finally interviewed Bassoff. He "denied associations or activities as a Soviet agent" and called Krivitsky a liar. He did admit carrying $7,500 and $3,000 in cash in Europe but described himself as a successful art dealer and gambler overseas. In October 1951 an FBI assessment of the case against Bassoff noted that he "is revealed to have possessed ample funds from time to time which were inconsistent with his profession of sailor and house painter. His actions and associations in Europe from 1931 to 1938 are suspicious from an espio- nage point of view.... Bassoff's occu- pation and travel since 1943 indicate that he could be presently engaged as a Soviet courier." However, by year's end Hoover told the Justice Depart- ment that Krivitsky's allegations had "never been verified nor substantiated by evidence." Five years later the FBI started shar- ing its information on Bassoff with the the story, the mats pjopOoV@dl"iopeleAW 5 22tf ltl#ialJRDP M94R001000200009-0 Approved For Rase 2005/07/28 : CIA-RDP93B01194RO01000200009-0 CIA. In 1959 the bureau again inter- viewed Bassoff, who said that "about a year ago he was contacted by another intelligence agency, and [was] offered employment." Bassoff said he thought it was the CIA, but did not accept the offer. On June 12, 1964, Serge Bassoff, a house painter and sailor in New York, died in obscurity, apparently of natural causes. The FBI, leaving no stone unturned, six weeks later went through his personal effects. All that could be found was a Post Office form showing he had sent a letter to a person in the Soviet Union. "Case closed" says the FBI stamp on the Serge Bassoff file. Masley is a Washington journalist writing a book about the late Walter Krivitsky. House Subcommittee Hears of Harassment by NSA and CIA, Takes Testimony from Authors Bamford and McGehee NSA watch list and his cornmunica- tions thereby subjected to the agency's eavesdropping techniques. Also, thedi- rector of NSA persuaded Macmillan Publishing Co., Kahn's publisher, to let the agency have a look at his manu- script without Kahn's knowledge. As for his own experiences, Bamford told how-and much of this has al- ready appeared in press coverage of his battle with NSA-the agency tried to classify or reclassify either unclassi- fied or declassified documents legally available to him in the writing of his book. He told how NSA tried in 1980 to classify unclassified naval station re- ports, how in 1981 it sought to reclassi- fy two Justice Department documents on NSA's domestic eavesdropping op- erations, and how in 1982, even after his book had been published, NSA tried to classify hitherto unclassified private correspondence of the late American cryptologist Williarn F. Fried- man. Bamford denounced the Reagan ad- ministration's policy of reclassifica- tion, which was effected by an execu- tive order of April 2, 1982. Bamford said, "It would be total anarchy for his- On Nov. 2, authors James Bamford torians and scholars, who frequently and Ralph W. McGehee told a House of spend years on their research, if one ad- Representatives subcommittee of trou- ministration would be permitted to re- ble they and fellow author David Kahn call history by forcing them to return suffered independently at the hands of materials released by a previous admin- an intelligence agency, either the Na- istration." tional Security Agency or the Central Ralph McGehee, a retired CIA officer Intelligence Agency, in the course of with 25 years of service, recounted his writing books about intelligence. troubles with the agency's Prepublica- Bamford and McGehee gave testi- tion Review Board (PRB) and of the mony to the House Judiciary Subcom- agency's harassment of him. All of this mittee on Courts, Civil Liberties and was brought about, he said, because of the Administration of Justice, which his disillusionment with the agency's is chaired by Rep. Robert W. Kasten- performance in Vietnam and his deter- meier (D-Wis.). With George Orwell's minationtowritea book about his expe- 1984 in mind, the committee is pon- riences-a book which, he said, the dering "1984: Civil Liberties and the agency tried "to stop." National Security State." In addition to-as McGehee de- Bamford, author of The Puzzle Pal- scribes it-almost endless classifying ace, which was not happily received at and reclassifying by the PRB of the NSA, the subject of the book, said that pages of his manuscript, he said the the agency has suffered from an "his- agency subjected him "to close, intim- torical obsession with secrecy" since idating, multiple types of surveillance, its establishment in 1952. He said that a surveillance that continues to this obsession was later "elevated to para- day." He charged that he was "placed noia" when NSA discovered that David under surveillance. My phone is tapped Kahn was including a chapter on NSA and my mail has probably been opened. in The Codebreakers. Quoting the Sen- Blatant surveillance is conducted ate Select Committee on Intelligence, not to determine my actions but to Bamford told how NSA considered frighten me into silence. Agency se- various proposals for disparaging the curity personnel have walked up my book, frustrating the author, and break- heels in supermarkets, sit in cars near ing into his home. While none of these my house and have probably entered proposals was carried out, said Bam- my hotel room and removed docu- in Canada.... Intimidation is the pur- pose of all this activity and I am well aware that Big Brother is watching." In conclusion McGehee-whose tes- timony he noted was cleared by the PRB and whose story has largely been told in an appendix to his Deadly De- ceits (New York: Sheridan Square Pub- lications, 1983)-accused the CIA of using the PRB "to prevent the Ameri- can people from learning of its illegal and embarrassing operations." Like Bamford before him, he denounced the Reagan reclassification order. Advice from a Book Dealer by Michael F. Speers Many FILS readers are probably clos- et book collectors. Those who deny having the malady probably delude themselves. I myself became infected early in life but didn't really admit the addiction until later-until, after my last State Department tour overseas, the books overflowed the apartment. Then I took the only course open to me: I obtained a state tax number and listed myself as a book dealer. Let me now offer those FILS readers having trouble finding that book they have been searching for for years some hard-won and expensively obtained knowledge on book collecting, book dealers, and search services. While there are many dealers in mil- itary history, there are, unfortunately, relatively few in the field of intelli- gence. There are, like myself, many dealers in first edition detective and spy fiction. There are thousands of rare and out-of-print dealers in this coun- try, Canada, Britain, and Europe. It is an unusual business. I estimate that 75 percent of these dealers' business takes place among themselves; they buy and sell in order to "feed" the few collectors out there. I try to maintain a stock of about 1,000 books more or less evenly divided among intelligence, military history, de- tective and spy fiction. Prices range from $5 to $250. I find that most custom- ers are less interested in obtaining a first edition in intelligence and military his- tory than in detective or spy fiction. The latter are most sought after and most ex- pensive. Prices vary widely from year to year and dealer to dealer. First editions of established authors can appreciate substantially over a period of years; even so, beware of thinking of book col- lecting as an investment. Certainly, ford, Kahn's name waAO @0 Fir RdRMAf e I2M5)0M8af~GFAdR B01194R001000200009-0 Approved For Rg1ease 2005/07/28 : CIA-RDP93B01194RO01000200009-0 (Book, Dealer. . . cont. from p. 4) Hemingway first editions have steadily appreciated; I think Graham Greene will do likewise. On the other hand certain authors go out of style, or the big pur- chasers of them-big collectors and li- braries-become sated. When that hap- pens, prices fall. Thus, I can offer you a Dickens first edition for about $200, but were I lucky enough to possess a first edition of the first James Bond book, Ca- sino Royale, I would offer it to you for $1,400. As for yourself, decide what kind of collector you wish to be. A collector of "reading copies" rather than first editions? Or signed books? Or in one field, such as intelligence? Or the works of one author such as Herbert O. Yardley? Once you make your deci- sion, stick to it. As for book dealers, unless you are price range. In the Washington, D.C., and I came up with all he wanted and area the Goodwill sale, the Vassar sale, and the Foreign Service Wives Club sale at the Department of State are all worth- while. State's is best. It has over 100,000 books, though badly organized, and is held each October. I rarely come away without buying a hundred books at prices ranging from $3 to $25. What about search services? My luck has not been good. I do run ads in AB for my customers. An ad costs me $17; hence, the volume of the want list (or its value) must justify the approach. I re- cently ran a series of ads for an author who wanted certain research material more. My last suggestion: talk to your local dealer. As one, I welcome inquiries. I deal only in the books I myself like to read and therefore respond to inquiries with some knowledge. Also, I like to meet people, people with the same passion or addiction. I learn a lot, make new friends. So write, call, and, if in the New England area, do drop in. If possi- ble, call beforehand, since, operating out of my home, I am in and out. The address is: Weston Books, RD 1, Box 90, Weston, Vt. 05161. Telephone 802- 824-3033. prepared to spend hours poking around those dusty secondhand book- stores, find yourself a dealer with whom you can work and who will work foryou. You are not likely to find one in the yellow pages. Your best bet is to consult dealers in your area and obtain copies of directories of specialized dealers. Anyone truly interested in collecting should subscribe to the principal mar- ket journal for used and rare book deal- ers, The AB Bookmans Weekly. This journal contains hundreds of classi- fied ads by dealers offering all sorts of books for sale and seeking other books. The subscription is $50 per year, and it is worth it. I advertise there regularly. The American Book Collector is a magazine for really serious collectors, probably beyond most of us. It con- tains a few advertisements but no- where near as many as AB. However, it does publish an annual, Directory of Specialized American Bookdealers. It is nicely cross-indexed; it is invaluable. Finally, here is a British title. Since I believe England is more likely to be the best source for uncommon books on military history and intelligence, let me introduce you to Sheppard Press of London. It publishes a series of very useful specialized directories. Among these is A Directory of Dealers in Sec- ondhand and Antiquarian Books in the British Isles. It costs $21 in the United States. Beside book dealers there are other sources of secondhand and rare books. There is hardly an area which does not Under the chairmanship of retired television, provided media coverage. have a book sale, a prime source. Know Gen. Eugene F. Tighe, two profes- The Eastern Seaboard media remained what you want and4ppiroweAfo(nFeleasvs240M07724a: 6IArRDP9GBO1Y1941R001.000200009-0 At the AFIQ Convention: High-Tech Problem Seen Needing Better Policy Coordination; Listeners Dissent on Intelligence Inhibiting Academicians by Hans Moses Two issues-technology transfer Santa Clara, and Richard Gripp of from the United States to the Soviet San Diego State University-tackled Union and cooperation between the the issue of academic-intelligence academic and intelligence communi- relationships. Professor Goda, declar- ties-fueled panel discussions in sun- ing himself torn in different directions ny San Diego, Calif., on Oct. 14-15 as as a lawyer, Jesuit priest, and ethnic some 200 members and guests of the Hungarian, accepted the need for AssociationofFormer Intelligence Offi- knowledge, including intelligence, as cers (AFIO) gathered for their ninth an- ~ overriding other considerations. Pro- nual convention. fessor Gripp, (interestingly enough a Also on the agenda were several former short-term CIA employee) saw guest speakers, as well as elections to intelligence connections as an inhibit- the Board of Directors and votes on ing factor in academic research, and several resolutions. The climax was a thereby drew vigorous dissent from rousing address at the closing banquet the floor. by former FBI Director Clarence M. Convention addresses included Kelley. He stressed the need for strong AFIO President Gen. Francis X. Lar- intelligence and law enforcement kin's on Soviet active measures, a tour establishments, not the least reason d'horizon by General Stilwell, and a being the protection of the very civil commentary by Accuracy-in-Media's rights in whose name they had been Reed Irvine on distorted reporting, attacked. with emphasis on the sins of CBS-TV. The scheduled three-man technol- Intelligence authors David A. Phil- ogy transfer panel was reduced to two lips and Lyman Kirkpatrick were re- members because of the recent resig- elected as AFIO directors. Newly elect- nation of Assistant Secretary of Com- ed were Ann Caracristi, former deputy merce Lawrence J. Brady. The two were director of the National Security moderator Gen. Richard G. Stillwell, Agency, and John Anson Smith, the or- who holds a high Defense Department ganizer of an annual intelligence sym- position, and Henry E. Hockeimer, posium in Naples, Fla. The convention president of the Ford Aerospace and adopted resolutions against unauthor- Communications Corp. Both, along ized disclosure and for making the gov- with members of the audience, stressed ernment, rather than individuals, liable the continuing seriousness of the prob- in certain lawsuits; the relief of intellL- lem, but Hockeimer also acknowl gence agencies from freedom of infor edged the difficulty of enforcing overly( mation rules;_and seeking information i i? pervasive restrictions and suggested on military personnel still missing in ac- the need for better policy coordina- tion in Southeast Asia. tion, as well as a presidentially sup- The Los Angeles Times and the ma- ported committee of industrialists. jor San Diego dailies, as well as local Approved For ee ease 2005/07/28 : CIA-RDP93B01I 94 001000200009-0 Futility Chic: Why Richard Helms Doesn't Like John Le Carrr by Jean Findlay Thomas Powers, in his biography of Richard Helms, The Man Who Kept the Secrets, says that "Helms liked the standard spy stories, but there was one spy novel [he] did not like-John Le Carrd's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, a bitter and cynical story of violence, betrayal, and spiritual exhaus- tion. It was not just the violence Helms minded, but the betrayal, the mood of defeat, the meanness, the numb loneli- ness of a man for whom loyalty had become a joke." I dislike Spy for the same reasons, and I think it is precisely because it is so skewed toward these qualities that it shows Le Carrel to be a bad writer. A novelist must create a real world, or at least one that seems real for as long as it takes to read the book. Le Carrd creates a world but, although he is commonly described as a realistic novelist, his is not a real world. It is a rats' alley, where there is little hope for the favorable outcome of any enter- prise, but where this doesn't matter much. It is steeped in gloom of the Cold Comfort Farm sort, urbanized: traffic shuffles despondently down wet streets, rooms are scruffy, paint and wallpaper are always peeling, villas are like graves, candles are "yellow and dusty like fragments of a tomb." This dismal ambiance is as remote from real- ity as a sentimental Pollyanna world; in fact, it is inverse sentimentality. The novelist must people his world with real characters who, because of what they are and what they therefore do, propel the story believably to its close. The reader must care about them, identify with one or more of them. Now, Le Carrd has been called not only a realistic but an existential novelist. "Existentialism" is a word tossed about rather freely since it first became fashionable, but it is defined by Bullock and Stallybrass in The Har- per Dictionary of Modern Thought as "a body of philosophical doctrine that dramatically emphasizes the contrast between human existence and the kind of existence possessed by natural ob- jects." This, it seems, is exactly what Le Carrel does not do. His characters, like no true thing on earth," whines some- one in A Murder of Quality. George Smiley can say, "During the war the en- emy was someone we could point at and read about in the papers. Today all I know is that I have learned to interpret the whole of life in terms of conspir- acy." These people lack free will, so that there is little contrast between their existence and that of natural ob- jects. Am I asking that life be sugar- coated? Of course not; life can be vi- cious. But in life the reptilian figure of a Blunt is balanced by an Admiral Stock- dale, who for eight years sustained his fellow prisoners in North Vietnam through his moral leadership, calling on his love for the great novelists and philosophers for help in "deterring self-pity when in extremis." And the spectrum between these two personali- ties progresses through every kind and degree of strength and resolution. The novelist must have a good story to tell and tell it well, keep the reader reading. The reader turns the pages to find out what will happen. Very little happens in a Le Carrel novel. The man seems to be not only contemptuous of people but fed up with life. After the early books-which, though miser- able, do move fast and must have been the ones that prompted Walter La- queurtoobserve in theJune 1983 Com- mentary that Le Carrd "might have be- come the English Simenon"-came A Small Town in Germany, no good omen, and then the "straight" novel, The Naive and Sentimental Lover. The reception given this embarrassment must have been traumatic for Le Carrel-a watershed, as Meg Green- field would put it. At any rate, it was af- ter the failure of Lover that he fled back to the Circus to write tales of such per- verse and self-indulgent elaboration that they are almost impossible to read. The slender plots are so overgrown with thickets of mannered prose that it is hard work to hack one's way through. To change the metaphor, Le Carrel lays a lot of smoke, in which char- acters flicker in and out, dim events pass and are forgotten, endless irrele- vant pages must be skipped and left in limbo. Why then is this writer such a critical and popular success? He is "one of the great storytellers of our time," "the pre- mier spy novelist of his time, perhaps of all time," and writes "with emotional truth and large moral resonance." He sells, I think, because much of the pub- lic is cowed by statements like these, made by trendy critics who inflate his talent because it is chic to be futile, to see life as a stacked deck. This is "exis- tential." Laqueur mentions Le Carrd's "sensitivity to political fashion ... per- fectly in harmony with the Zeitgeist." Millions of copies of these books are bought. How many are read to the end with pleasure? What are the word-of- mouth sales? In Spy, the convinced Marxist Field- ler asks Leamas, the spy, what his phi- losophy is. The movie, as I remember it, improved on this by having Oskar Werner almost shout at Richard Bur- ton, "How do you live?" At rare inter- vals, clearings in the underbrush, we see in the later books a return to the simpler, early manner, and we care, for a while, about the old woman who is mugged in Paris, the murdered Rus- sian general. Le Carrd could write about people who live if he had a mind to do so. It would be fun-fun-to have art English Simenon. Jean Findlay served in the OSS in Washington, Al- giers, Italy, and Austria. Now retired from the CIA she does many things, especially Russian transla- tions. Books In Review What Does Constantinides Say? Intelligence and Espionage: An Ana- lytical Bibliography ByGeorgeC.. Con- stantinides. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Publication having at last made that question passel, there now appears a new question which anyone discuss- ing an intelligence book will be asking: "What does Constantinides have to say about it?" Despite the unbelievable price, his book is a must. Constantinides is a gov- ernment retiree with an intelligence background, a lifelong penchant for his world, are too awful to be real: gro- Press, 1983. 559pp. $60. tesque, hapless beings who have three Those who knew George Constanti- strikes on them from the start as they nides was writing this volume found scuttle dispiritedly through the rubble, themselves in recent months-it 's s ems Ii kin o 3n ther: l aker observin them cold ir th , g e m , he might bacteria in a ciilurpeQ~FRprri$r R e i~ 1 opJ Po9 uB01194R001000200009-0 (cont. on p Approved For Release 2005/07/28 : CIA-RDP93B01194R004000200009-0 (Constantinides...cont. from p. 6) contesting-the evaluations, compari- serious reading, and a scholarly habit of making notes on what he reads. The proof is in this volume: 500 books in English on intelligence and counterin- telligence all briefly, factually, analyti- cally, and critically evaluated, com- pared, and contrasted. There simply is nothing like it-the product of Constan- tinides' scholarship and an idea of Fred Praeger of Westview Press, and no one interested in the field can afford not to consult or read it. Yet the reader might as well know at the outset that this is not a book to be read from cover to cover. Admittedly it is possible; after all, it is a collection of reviews with a common theme which theoretically could carry a reader along a railroad track. However, as the poetess said, "There are shapes by the way; there are things that appall or en- tice us." It is those "things" which will pull the reader hither and yon-and do so to his excitement. For instance: Begin at page 53, the first page of text, with Constantinides' first entry (and en passant notice the fullness of a typical entry): Accoce, Pierre, and Quet, Pierre. A Man Called Lucy. New York: Cow- ard-McCann, 1967. 248pp., bibliog., no index (London: W.H. Allen. The Lucy Ring]. One quickly learns, in 15 lines, of the controversy surrounding this account of the Lucy ring in Switzerland in World War 11 and particularly of the strong de- nunciation of it by the Soviet agent San- dor Rado. What will one do at this point: resolutely go on to the second entry or, curious about Rado, turn to the index for guidance and satisfac- tion? Taking the only route possible, the reader will find in the index 10 more page references to Rado. Turning to the first of these, on page 116, he finds a brief mention of Rado's own book, Codename Dora, which, of course, he quickly locates on page 358. There he finds a brief account of Rado plus tempting references to David Dallin's Soviet Espionage, Alexander Foote's Handbook for Spies, and the CIA's The Rote Kapelle. Shall he continue with Rado, or take up with the Rote Kapelle? It probably will be some time before the reader gets back to that second entry, George Agabekov's OGPU. This is a book which one can pick up and read at any page and then wander back and forth, freely and happily, visit- ing and revisiting books, personalities, events, problems, and controversies sons, and suggestions, which Constan- tinides knowingly, responsibly, and succinctly offers the reader. This is, in short, a standard reference work for anyone dealing with the litera- ture of intelligence. Intelligence offi- cers (active and retired), spy buffs, pro- fessors and students, book reviewers and publishers, newsmen, lawyers, and publicists-all these and more will henceforward find themselves first checking with Constartinides. Their disappointment will be the inevitable absence from this collection of some special book which is either too ob- scure or too remote from intelligence or too new to have been included. At least they can tell Constantinides to get on with the second volume and the publisher not to take so long produc- ing it and to get the price down so even a rich man can buy it! Absolute Rot by Joseph F. Hosey The Children's Game. By David Wise. New York: St. Martin's/Marek, 1983. 280pp. $14.95. If the publisher had not chosen to make a point of presenting this book as one that "takes us deep into the CIA and into the world of espionage," it would not be worth the slightest public notice. However, it has been noticed and extravagantly praised, and it is not very consoling to reflect that such praise could arise only from a pro- found ignorance of both the art of the novel and the realities of espionage. In a review in The Washington Post, Jonathan Yardley called it a "con- trolled and sophisticated work of fic- tion." According to an advertisement in Book World, Daniel Schorr thinks it of- fers "intimate knowledge of the real world of espionage," and Paul New- man says it "reveals the dark underside of U.S. foreign policy." Absolute rot. Wise has given us a ge- latinous slab of tripe which has nothing to do with either the real CIA or the real world of espionage, but which portrays an agency that never was. It's an agen- cy that was perpetually engaged in a tangle of nonoperations conducted by amateur moral philosophers, one of whom pontificates in a moment of sud- den illumination that "the agency isn't evil, it's the world we're trying to cope with." Such philosophers are led by a crew of directors whose incompetence would ruin any small retail business , , an c always enjoyin and sometime but w es arac- btl2 4 proved For Release Z08M Y?' dA 9bSbVT1940,d ~~(TO W moving the nar- ceives their colleagues, the public, and the political leaders of the country they serve, and has finally gotten them into a situation in which operations are con- sistently compromised andthepenetra- tion of the agency at a very high level is suspected. Bill Danner, who has left the agency in disgust, is recalled to get at the facts, and he finds himself once again in a world of cross-purposes, double-dealing, mutual distrust, and clubby exclusiveness through which he moves in a mood of sulky defiance until all problems are solved. The stan- dard sexual dimension is provided by a love affair with his colleague Julie Norris. Of course, he doesn't really trust her. Now it must be admitted that the CIA is an organization of human beings, and it has the tendency of any human group to degenerate into a cynical, self-perpet- uating oligarchy with insiders and out- siders, unofficial channels of power, and overlapping circles of influence. The same characteristic has been no- ticed in the College of Cardinals, the German General Staff, the Comintern, and the U.S. Senate, and competent writ- ers have used this unhappy human con- dition to create significant works of fic- tion. Anthony Trollope, for instance, used it with delicate skill in the Bar- chester novels. It must also be admitted that engage- ment in secret work can have disrup- tive effects on one's personality and philosophy. And the dramatic and of- ten tragic consequences of this disrup- tion can provide a novelist with solid, workable material, such as Joseph Conrad uses superbly in The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. However, it is also true that these dis- mal facts of organizational and private life do not constitute the whole story, and mere repetitive, dreary insistence on them does not constitute a novel. Nor does a liberal scattering of pseu- do-jargon ("moles," "gnomes," "dirty tricks," and so forth), or knowing allu- sions ("The Shanghai Restaurant out on Lee Highway was a favorite hang- out for agency people...."), or scata- logical monosyllables convert polit- ical journalism into authentic fiction. A novel develops through a series of credible, consistent, and related events experienced by credible, con- sistent, and related personalities whose desires, aversions, hopes, anxi- eties, courage, cowardice, love, hate, energy, laziness, and relationships-in short whose realized hum h Approved For Reloase 2005/07/28 : CIA-RDP93B01194RO41000200009-0 rative forward. The plot of this book is a readers a spellbinding saga of the still recall the fine points of border run- manifest absurdity both in general out- Boyce manhunt. The Flight of the Fal- ping handed down by their grandpar- line and in detail. The characters are con is the sequel to Lindsey's first ents. This time, though, Boycewas get- cardboard cutouts the author presents work, The Falcon and the Snowman, ting his excitement and his income to us in a series of statements, but who which chronicled the adventures of from robbing banks, rather than spy- do not move through the story under Christopher John Boyce, former altar ing. their own power. For instance, even if boy, son of an ex-FBI agent, and em- From Idaho Boyce moved on to Mon- we are prepared to admit the everyday ployee of TRW (a CIA contractor), who tana and then to the rain forests of likelihood that the Director of Central became a Soviet spy. The Falcon and Washington's Olympic Peninsula, Intelligence might meet the Director of the Snowman, a resounding success, where he lived the life of a fisherman. the KGB in a ski lift to plan the assassi- was ultimately printed in seven Ian- His ultimate undoing was not good de- nation of the president of the Soviet guages and is presently being filmed tective work but a well-publicized re- Union, we have no firm grasp of the by Twentieth Century Fox for release ward which tempted his partners in character of either man nor of the nec- in the fall of 1984 with Timothy Hutton crime. Boyce's freedom ended when essarily complex course of each life playing the lead role. The sequel is no federal agents with drawn guns cor- which has brought them to this curious less a masterpiece than the first work. nered him in a drive-in restaurant in encounter. We are told, of course, that The Flight of the Falcon is as much a Port Angeles, Wash. The irony of the "Brooks Jordan lived for power. . .was story about the U.S. Marshals Service story is that despite the herculean ef- totally absorbed in its pursuit and exer- as it is about Christopher Boyce. The forts of the Marshals Service, it was the cise" and that Aleksandr Pavlov had "a Boyce case was the marshals' first big FBI that developed the crucial lead that special talent for protecting his flanks case since they were given jurisdiction led to his recapture. and advancing through the hierarchy over fugitives, a task formerly per- Although Lindsey's book makes at Dzerzhinsky Square." We are told- formed by the FBI. With their reputa- good reading, a caveat is in order for but we do not see Jordan living for tion on the line, the marshals pulled out the serious historian. Of necessity, power or Pavlov protecting his flanks. all the stops in their quest to find Boyce Lindsey relied heavily on the accounts Nor do we see any of the other charac- after his escape from Lompoc. Fueled given by the marshals. The reader is ters in the book living out what is as- by media speculation that the KGB or left with the impression that on more serted about them. Their wooden be- the CIA had engineered Boyce's es- than one occasion the marshals were havior demonstrates only the author's cape, the barrage of publicity about the winking at Lindsey in much the same intention to perpetuate the most fat- event generated over 800 reported way as the con men pulled the wool uous, popular misconceptions about sightings of Boyce, each of which had over their eyes. This is apparent in the intelligence activity and the people to be checked out. The reports ran the vignette in which Lindsey tells how the who conduct it. spectrum from genuinely concerned agents conceived a "black bag job" to Let us hope that not everyone will be citizens to psychics and a veritable pa- whisk Boyce out of Costa Rica to avoid taken in by the venal blurb of a dust rade of con artists and flimflam artists extradition problems. The plan sup- jacket and that this novel will merci- trying to lead the marshals on a wild posedly included the surreptitious pre- fully be allowed to find its quiet way to goose chase. positioning of an executive jet painted the remainder tables. And chase wild geese they did. The black with all markings obliterated. Hosey, holding a Ph.D. in English literature and now retired from intelligence service, frequently reviews fiction in FILS. He Ran Thatta Way by Paul M. Rosa The Flight of the Falcon. By Robert Lindsey. New York: Simon & Schus- ter, 1983. 328pp., $15.95. stories placed Boyce in Australia, Thisseemsa little far-fetched for an op- South Africa, Costa Rica, Mexico, and eration prepared on the spur of the mo- numerous points in North America. So ment for quiet execution. good were the con men that the mar- The marshals also evidenced a ten- shals actually deployed theirtaskforce dency to take credit for much of the to Johannesburg, South Africa, and FBI's work, as well as to create a false San Josc, Costa Rica. Every time they impression of cooperation with other were about to spring their traps, they agencies. Rather than the principal missed their prey. This happened be- informers coming to the FBI in Denver, cause Boyce wasn't there. In each case the marshals imply that they developed the only people who were waiting were their main source in Bonners Ferry. "Could anyone in this chamber tell the marshals and the con men. In the They also tell of an interagency convoy me what has become of Mr. Boyce?" end it turned out that at no point did the of Border Patrol, Forest Service, and asked Daniel Patrick Moynihan on the marshals have any idea where Boyce other agencies raiding an abandoned floor of the U.S. Senate. The senator really was. mine where they thought Boyce might was posing the question for good rea- While the marshals were running be hiding, as well as the prepositioning son. Eighteen days before, on Jan. 21, around in Mexico, Boyce was in a bar of a Border Patrol tracking team during 1980, convicted spy Christopher John in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, laughing at a stakeout in case Boyce turned rabbit Boyce had disappeared without a trace their boasts on the evening news that and headed for Canada. In reality, the from the maximum security prison at they were one campfire behind him in informers had never been to the mine Lompoc, Calif., and thus initiated a Mexico. Boyce had made his way up where Boyce had stayed and thus nineteen-month manhunt that would the Pacific Coast and had settled down could not have led the agents there. span the globe. in the mountainous Idaho panhandle, a Further, the mine was inaccessible by No question about it, this one is a scant distance from the Canadian bor- road and could only be reached on thriller. In a brilliant piece of writing, der, a place where Americans still live foot. At no time did the marshals con- Robert Lindsey, the New York Times in log cabins without electricity and fide in the Border Patrol, the Forest (cont. on p. s) Los Angeles bureau ~hief va his where bTU7Fff:'UW-` ~ 1 194R001000200009-0 pproTea For Re ease 20 1~ Service, or the 1i Pcjar au hortt es Reld~se x005/07/2 : CIA-RDP93B01194R004i000200009-0 parties on the problems of Peter Irons is not only a lawyer and evenvif they had, the Border Patrol had national intelligence. This plea by a political science professor, but he is miles of mountainous terrain and 23 back roads leading into Canada. They were not in a position to field a tracking team even if they had been asked to do so. In light of these examples, the seri- ous historian is advised to consult the original source documents. Absent such a professional interest, however, the casual reader can sit back and enjoy a reasonably reliable account that is fast-paced, action-packed, and quite sobering. The reviewer is an attorney and investigative historian and served as the investigative member of the defense team in United States v. Chris- topher J. Boyce, of a!. Norway, "An Intelligence Big Power" by Stevan Dedijer The Secret Norway. By C. Chris- tensen. In Norwegian. Oslo: Athe- neum, 1983. C. Christensen, awell-known Norwe- gian editor and columnist, served in his country's intelligence service during World War I I and from 1947 to 1955. His book, according to the author of the foreword, "represents a breakthrough in greater public openness [on the part of] the Norwegian secret services." Its concluding chapter, "Today-in 1983," pleads for a greater Norwegian intelli- gence effort in the period when "Mos- cow is after world domination." It ends with the sentence: "A nation that ne- glects and that does not support its so- called secret services has no future in freedom." Based on interviews with some of the top Norwegian intelligencers, and with an endorsement of the research by the Norwegian Department of Defense, the book describes Norway's intelli- gence effort under the leadership of Vilhelm Evang, from 1946 to 1966, in the "cold war, the third world war," when Norway was among the first Euro- pean countries to organize a "stay behind" intelligence network underthe threat of Soviet invasion. In the chapter "Norway, A Big Power," Christensen claims that at that time Norway was by its own effort-and not as William Colby claims with help from the United States-"an Intelligence Big Power." Christensen's book, by describing this past intelligence (1946-1966), has raised a considerable political storm by pointing out the somewhat para- , . noid role of the left tbWMW"elease44O5I04P28 : CIA-RDP93B01194R001000200009-0 9 greater public understanding, and hence openness, on the part of the national intelligence effort would be old hat in the United States. However, in European democracies, still clinging to the traditional dogma that a "secret service must be totally secret," it is a breakthrough. Dedijer is a pensioned but not retired professor at Lund University in Sweden See his letter to the editor, p. 12 This review and his letter make, as he notes, a report from SIL S, the S.:andinavian Intelli- gence Literary Scene OTHER NEW BOOKS History Eccles, David and Sybil. By Safe Hand: Letters of Sybil and David Eccles. London: Bodley Head, 1983. 431 pp. Long a resident in Spain before 1939 as a railroad executive, David Eccles on the outbreak of war became advisor to the Ministry of Economic Warfare on Spanish affairs. Unlike the ministry, he favored a flexible policy on economic aid to Spain in order to keep it neutral. In these letters to and from his wife back home-letters carefully and sub- stantially pruned by husband David, his wife being dead-there is much war- time policy, economic warfare, prop- aganda, some intelligence, and much personal news and views of numerous personalities. Howe, Ellic. The Black Game: British Subversive Operations against the Germans during the Second World War. London: Michael Joseph, 1982. 276pp. $22.95. Ellic Howe's background made him fit for the job. Before the war he acci- dentally became a printer -not the con- ventional commercial printer-but a gentleman scholar deeply interested in the development of printing from the 1450s to the present. Thus he was ready in 1939 for wartime fakery and forgery, for the sophisticated business of fooling Germans by giving them Brit- ish propaganda in the form of German news, views, and entertainment. He has given us here not ar exciting but certainly an informative account of Bri- tain's printed and oral World War II black propaganda. His hero is Sefton Delmer of "Gustave Siegfried Eins" fame and Black Boomerang. Irons, Peter. Justice at War. New York and Oxford: Oxford 1983 also acting as pro bono publico attor- ney for three Japanese-Americans who in 1942 unsuccessfully chal- lenged the wartime internment order. The intelligence angle in this account of that famous action is a high-level ad- ministration battle over a key military report of Japanese espionage in this country. Lorain, Pierre, Clandestine Opera- tions: The Arms and Techniques of the Resistance, 1941-1944. Adapted into English by David Kahn. New York: Macmillan, 1983. 185pp. $24.95. One might argue that the English ti- tle is not as accurate as the original French Armement Clandestine; even so, this is a valuable 1972 book which David Kahn has recovered for English readers. With luminously clear line drawings-Lorain is an architect-it presents a detailed, descriptive-but readable-catalogue of clandestine ra- dios, cipher systems, aircraft, and weapons which were such an indis- pensable element of World War I I clan- destine operations of the French Re- sistance. Rohwer, J LYgen. Axis Submarine Suc- cesses 1939-1945. Updated transla- tion of Die U-Boot-Erfolge Der Ach- senmachte 1939-1945,originallypub- lished in 1968. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1983. 386pp. $23.95. One need only glance at this refer- ence work to appreciate how meticu- lously and exhaustively German naval historian Jorgen Rohwer has suc- ceeded in identifying and detailing Axis submarine successes in World War II. In tabularform here are such de- tails as the targeted vessel's name, na- tionality, type, and tonnage; the attack- ing vessel's name, nationality, and cap- tain; and the date, time, and location of the attack. The indexes provide naval charts, lists of U-boats, U-boat cap- tains, convoys, and ships attacked. West, Nigel. M! 6: British Secret Intel- ligence Operations 1909-45. Lon- don: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983. 266pp. #9.95. Nigel West has written two books on MI 5, one on the period of 1905 to 1945 and the other on 1945 to 1972, and has covered a hundred years (under his true name of Rupert Allason) of the Metropolitan Police Special Branch. In this new book he gives us the first 30 years of MI 6 in the first half of the book and the wartime years in the second half. Included here are a chapter titled Approved For Release 2005/07/28: CIA-RDP93B01 "OSS: The Unsecref Service" and son submachine gun ($469.95). And another called "Soviet Penetration." when you're through enjoying The Also printed here is an English transla- Complete Spy run it through your Rex- tion of a 1940 German report on British ell Shredder, whose models range intelligence. from $650 to $6,995. Other Subjects Daly, Lt. Col. Ron Reid. Selous Scouts: Top Secret War. As told to Pe- ter Stiff. Alberton, South Africa: Gala- go Publishing, 1982. 432pp. #15.95. This is a regimental history, but not of the ordinary kind of regiment. The Selous Scouts Regiment of Rhodesia was formed in 1973. Its name came from Frederick Courteney Selous, an African hunter known to President Theodore Roosevelt and Kaiser Wil- helm and made famous as Alan Quar- termain in Rider Haggard's King Solo- mon's Mines. The regiment's purpose was the clandestine elimination of Afri- can terrorists in and outside of Rho- desia. Its story is told here by the man who organized and led it. Gooch, John, and Amos Perlmutter, eds. Military Deception and Strategic Surprise. London: Cass, 1982. 192pp. This group of articles by Barton Wha- ley, Michael Mihalka, Janice Gross Stein, Michael I. Handel, Donald C. Daniel, and Katherine L. Herbig firstap- peared in a special issue of The Jour- nal of Strategic Studies, March 1982 (5/1). Janke, Peter. Guerrilla and Terrorist Organizations: A World Directory and Bibliography. Brighton, Sussex, Eng- land: Harvester Press, 1983. 531 pp. $65.00 The organizations are listed alpha- betically by continent and country. The material for each organization runs to a paragraph or two, or a page or two. The author, Peter Janke, now the head of research at Control Risks, Ltd. in London, has written books on 19th- century Spain, the Spanish Basques, South Africa, and Ulster. McGarvey, Robert and Elise Caitlin. The Complete Spy: An Insider's Guide to the Latest in High-Tech Espionage & Equipment. New York: Perigee Books, 1983. 192pp. $9.95 (paper- back). You're a Bondian Walter Mitty, a spy for hire but, say the authors, you can't do your job in this "murky" world, this "darkly glittering business," without the tools of the trade. Hey, man, "Tech- nology... is the essence of this world." In this spooked- and spoofed-up cat- alogue of security equipment you should be able to find what you need: a IN THE MAGAZINES History Army Security Agency. "Examples of Intelli- gence Obtained from Cryptanalysis." Aug. 1, 1946. Cryptologia, October 1983 (7/4), pp. 315-325. Austin, Roger. "Propaganda and Public Opin- ion in Vichy France: The Department of Herault, 1940-44." European Studies Review, October 1983 (13/4), pp. 455-482. Beesley, Patrick; Stafford, David; and Mon- tagu, Ewen. "What You Don't Know by What You Do." Reviews of F.H. Hinsley's British Intelligence in the Second World War: Its influence on Strategy and Opera- tions. International History Review, May 1983 (5/2), pp. 279-290. Kruh, Louis. "How to Use the German Enigma Cipher Machine: A Photographic Essay." Cryptologia, October 1983 (7/4), pp. 291-296. Leighton, Albert C., and Stephen M. Matyas. "The Search for the Key Book to Nicholas Trist's Book Ciphers." Cryptologia, October 1983 (7/4), pp. 297-314. Navasky, Victor. "The Rosenberg Revival: Of Atom Spies and Ambiguities " The Na- tion, Oct. 22, 1983 (237/12), pp. 353, 375-380. O'Reilly, Kenneth. "The Roosevelt Adminis- tration and Legislative-Executive Con- flict: The FBI vs. The Dies Committee." Congress and the Presidency, Spring 1983 (10/1), pp. 79-93. On Books Bayles, Martha. "Rosenbergs II." The Rosen- bergs, The Book of Daniel, and Daniel. The American Spectator, November 1983 (16/11), pp. 34-35. Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri. "The Defictionaliza- tion of American Private Detection." Jour- nal of American Studies, August 1983 (17/2), pp. 265-274. Karpel, Craig S. "John Le Carrd's Jerusalem: Time to Bring Smiley in from the Cold." The Listener, Sept. 29, 1983 (110/2828), pp. 13-14. So inaccurate, did he really write it? Morris, Donald R. [On John Le C:arre's spy jargon) Verbatim, Autumn 1982 (9/2), pp. 3-5. Must reading for non-professionals. Pope, Sam. "The Study of Intelligence." Com- ment on intelligence publications of the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence. RUSI, September 1983 (128/3), pp. 58-59. Pope, retired from the Marines, now is with the RUSI Research Department. Summers, Col. Harry G., Jr. "Delta Force: America's Counterterrorist Unit and the Mission to Rescue the Hostages in Iran by Colonel Charlie A. Beckwith U.S. Army, retired, and Donald Knox.' Military Review, November 1983 (63/11), pp. 21-27. Hand glove, Bulletproof Vest, Wrist- mesas, t1owara. ; ruoiisners Protest Reagan (only $6.50), a 5upercaA 8%TbdnFbr Rdia5@e2100B11917028of 04A +DP8&B01 10 194R09*000200009-0 can Spectator, November 1983 (16/11), pp. 32-33. Holland, Mary. "Using Tainted Evidence [against alleged Irish terrorists]." New Statesman, Sept. 23, 1983 (106/2740), pp. 8-9. Kaplan, Robert D. "Greece's disinformation daily?" Columbia Journalism Review, November-December 1983, pp. 5-6. Is the KGB behind it? Mott, William C. "A Private Foundation to Interface with Defectors." ABA Intelli- gence Report, October 1983 (5/10), pp. 7-9. Sakharov, Dr. Vladimir N. "The Defectors: Why They Do It, Where They Go and What Happens to Them." Foreign Intelli- gence and Risk Management (FIRM), Nov. 7, 1983, pp. 1-3. "Soviets chip away at high-tech security." Corporate Security, November 1983, pp. 1-2. Legal Issues Eggert, David S. "Executive Order 12,333: An Assessment of the Validity of Warrantless National Security Searches." Duke Law Journal, June 1983 (No. 3), pp. 611-644. Schwartz, Herman. "National Security Wire- taps: How Do We Know FISA Is Work- ing?" The Nation, Oct. 29, 1983 (237/13), pp. 397-399. Williams, Larry. "Court Overturns FOIA Deci- sions." Re: withholding of certain docu- ments in the Paisley case. ABA Intelli- gence Report, November 1983 (5/11), pp. 2, 4-6. Signal Intelligence Signal intelligence is the subject of a special issue of Signal (October 1983). It contains eight articles on such topics as effect information systems, C31 in the Marine Corps and intelligence, radioelec- tronic combat and the C3 process. IN THE NEWSPAPERS History Cohen, Richard. ,The Rosenbergs Scared Us All to Death." Washington Post, Oct. 23, 1983, p. C3. Hennessy, Peter, and David Walker. "How Mussolini and industry financed Mosley." The Times (London), Nov. 9, 1983, p. 3. . "Mosley dining club aimed to sub- vert Armed Forces." Ibid., Nov. 10, 1983, p. 4. "Mosley faced prosecution for se- dition." Ibid., Nov. 10, 1983, p. 1. "Mosley thought his friend was MI 5 spy." Ibid., Nov. 9, 1983, p. 1. lerodiaconou, Andriana. "Greek Police Say Gun Used on U.S. Attache Killed CIA Aide in '75." Washington Post, Nov. 18, 1983, p. A28. "Sailor in Pearl Harbor Warning Is Identified [as Robert D. Ogg]." New York Times, Dec. 4, 1983, p. 25. Smyth, Robin. "Barbie defence angers heroes of Resistance." The Observer (London), Nov. 20, 1983, p. 13. Markham, James M. "An Unsung 'Good Ger- man' [Edward Schulte]: Fame Comes at Last." New York Times, Nov. 9, 1983. "New Assertion in Barbie Case." Ibid., Nov. 14, 1983, p. A4. West, Nigel. "A goidmine of facts from the spy fields." The Times (London), Nov. 2, 194tRQQ1000200009-0 C joved For Reuse 2W5 12 Iq-RP~,3I94R01 0h00200009-0 anoed. ew .,YO, mes. AA napnh 1QA9 199 Or,% "Aa'atralian's [former Prime Minister Harold Holt's] Drowning Was Faked, Book Says." Washington Post, Nov. 21, 1983, p. A5. Bumiller, Elisabeth. "The File and the Fury: Labeled a Security Risk, Penn Kimball Fights Back." Ibid., Dec. 2, 1983, p. Dl. "Hitler's top spy [Admiral Canaris] unveiled as British agent." Washington Times, Oct. 17, 1983, p. 6A. Marks, Laurence. "PM-spied-for China book is hoax.'" The Observer (London), Nov. 20, 1983, p. 1. Spies and Defectors "A Soviet Defector [Oleg Bitov] Is Granted Permission to Stay in Britain." New York Times, Oct. 26, 1983, p. A10. Bltov, Oleg. "Why I chose the West." The Times (London), Dec. 2, 1983, p. 16. "Banker's Widow [in England] reportedly KGB agent." Washington Times, Oct. 19, 1983, p. 7A. "British tip led to US spy [James Harper] arrest." The Times (London), Oct. 26, 1983, p. 6. Cowton, Rodney; Hornsby, Michael; and Salon, Craig. "Spy Inquiry sought on South African [Dieter Gerhardt]." Ibid., Nov. 21, 1983, p. 1. "East German Is Denied Bail on U.S. Espio- nage Charges." New York Times, Nov. 5, 1983, p. 16. Gorney, Cynthia. "Jay, the Minister and the Big Man's Character Populate Case of Alleged Spy [James Harper]." Washing- ton Post, Oct. 23, 1983, p. 1. "India Seizes 3 Officers as Military Spies." New York Times, Dec. 7, 1983, p. A5. "India ousts U.S. aide [Harry L. Wetherbee] in spy case." Washington Times, Dec. 9, 1983, p. 6A. Kurtz, Howard. "California Man Charged with Spying: KGB Intelligence 'Wind- fall.' " Washington Post, Oct. 18, 1983, p. 1. "No word on asylum for [Chinese] defector." Washington Times, Nov. 28, 1983, p. 3A. "Seoul Says 2 Captives Are in Espionage Unit." New York Times, Dec. 6, 1983, p. A5. "South Koreans sink spyboat, nab 2 agents." Washington Times, Dec. 5, 1983, p. 1. "Soviet Defector Is Identified." New York Times, Oct. 28, 1983, p. A4. "State must rule on [Chinese] defector's plea." Washington Times, Nov. 29, 1983, p. 5A. "Swiss to try spy [self-identified only as M.V. Nikolayev] in private." Ibid., Dec. 2, 1983, p. 6A. "The unanswered questions about [British] banker's death [in Moscow]." The Times (London), Oct. 19, 1983, p. 6. "Warsaw Arrests 2 as U.S. Spies; Walesa Wants Sanctions Ended." New York Times, Dec. 6, 1983, p. A8. Werner, Leslie Maitland. "East German Held in Espionage Case." Ibid., Nov. 4, 1983, p. A20. Witherow, John. "MI 5 officer [Michael Betta- ney] accused of betraying British informa- tion about KGB." The Times (London), Nov. 8, 1983, p. 3. Duboudin, Tony. "Australian secret agents in hotel room farce." The Times (London), Dec. 2, 1983, p. 9. "Intelligence Officials [in Burma] Fired." Washington Post, Oct. 29, 1983, p. A22. Kurtz, Howard. "Soviet Network Intensifies Hunt for U.S. Secrets." Washington Post, Oct. 23, 1983, p. All. Lindsey, Robert. "Some Losers in Silicon Valley Said to Find Wealth in Spying." New York Times, Oct. 23, 1983, p. 1. Shribman, David. "Few Go to [House intelli- gence committee] to Study Intelligence Reports " Ibid., Oct. 19, 1983, p. A24. "Spies in Washington." Washington Post Magazine, Dec. 4, 1983. This issue con- sists of eight articles by James Conaway, Lawrence Meyer. Lee Michael Katz, James Bamford, Bob Arnebeck, Daniel Nossiter, and Gary Moore. "Swedes halt KGB cargo of U.S. computer." Washington Times, Nov. 21. 1983, p. 6A. Issues Kerr, Peter. "CBS Is Ordered to Give West- moreland Its Notes." New York Times, Oct. 15, 1983, p. 46. "'Necessary Secrets' vs. the Public's Right to Know." Q & A: R.K. Willard of the Justice Department. New York Times, Oct. 25, 1983, p. A30. "Spy (Klaus Fuchs) gives space warning." The Times (London), Nov. 1, 1983, p. 8. Reston, James. "Reagan on Subversion." New York Times, Oct. 23, 1983, p. E19. Taubman, Philip. [Grenadan) Invasion Intelli- gence: Doubts Arise about Assault in the Absence of Evidence Supporting the Administration." Ibid., Nov. 1, 1983, p. 1. "Major Questions Raised on C.I.A.'s Performance." Ibid., Nov. 3, 1983, p. A21. Documentation Great Britain. Prime Minister. Report of the Security Commission May 1983. Cmnd. 8876. London: HMSO, 1983. 41 pp. #4.00. U.S. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence. Intelligence Information Act of 1983. Report together with additional views [to accompany S. 1324]. 98th Cong., 1st sess. Report No. 98-305, Nov. 9, 1983. Washington: GPO, 1983. 45pp. Report Jan. 1, 1981 to Dec. 31, 1982. 98th Cong., 1st sess. Report No. 98- 10. Washington: GPO, 1983. 40pp. Rules of Procedure for the.... 98th Cong., 1st sess. S. F'rt. 98-39. Wash- ington: GPO, 1983. 20pp. Miscellaneous ABA. Standing Committee on Law and National Security. "Litiqating National Security Issues." Proceedings of a work- shop held Aug. 9, 1982. 47pp. $3. FOR YOUR INFORMATION World War II Printed Propaganda Do you collect "black" and/or "white" World War II printed propagan- da? If so, you might find help in two sources mentioned by Ellic Howe in The Black Game: British Subversive Operations against the Germans dur- SentenApfor Ex- li-? orRwtlea~V2~65fding : i O ii94R001000200009-0 First, there is Herr Klaus Kirchner, who has begun publishing a series of volumes on the production of British, American, German and Soviet printed wartime propaganda. As a hobbyist he runs his Verlag for Zeitgeschichtliche Dokumente and Curiosa at Luitpold- strasse 58, D-8520 Erlangen, West Ger- many. He has also organized exhibi- tions of all forms of materials from the leaflet war. The second, source is British, the Psywar Society, founded in 1958 by R.G. Auckland (60 High St., Sandridge, Herts). The society caters to the inter- ests of collectors and students of sim- ilar material and has an international membership of about 200. Auckland edits and publishes The Falling Leaf (a quarterly). He and his colleagues have produced a chronological list of white leaflets produced by Britain's wartime Political Warfare Executive and dis- seminated by the RAF from 1939 on- warNews of Michael John Bettaney In the last issue, FILS noted (p. 9) the cryptic newspaper account of the arrest in London last September of one Michael John Bettaney. Some details are now found in a story in The Times (see "In the Newspapers," p. 10). Betta- ney, 33, an Oxford graduate and an MI5 officer, faces several charges under the Official Secrets Act of hav- ing, collecting, and passing on to another person information harmful to state safety or interest. In particular, he is said to have disclosed information on the expulsion of three Soviet diplo- mats from Britain earlier this year and of passing on a British intelligence assessment of a KGB network operat- ing in Britain. Nothing has been said, however, about the identity of those with whom Bettaney has been work- ing. Seaman Z Steps Forward FILS, in its June 1982 issue (p. 1), offered a $100 reward for the identifica- tion of "Seaman First-Class Z." His identity became a matter of some inter- est when some World War II testimony of his was used by John Toland in Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath to buttress the thesis that President Franklin D. Roosevelt had advance knowledge of Japanese ships heading toward Hawaii early in December 1941. Seaman Z, who had personal reasons for remaining anonymous, has now apparently come forward on his own. In May he was interviewed by a retired na- val intelligence officer, Cmdr. I.G. New- man. He was identified on Nov. 30 when the text of the interview was turned over by the National Security Agency to the naval historian's office in Washington, D.C. Seaman Z is now known to be Rob- ert D. Ogg, a retired Kentfield, Calif., businessman, who at this juncture seems unwilling to add anything more to that interview or even accept tele- phone calls on the subject. Also as of now the interview seems not to settle the controversy about FDR's foreknowledge of the attack at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7,1941. For infor- mation on availability and price of a copy of the 16,000-word interview, write or call John Taylor, Modern Mili- tary Records, National Archives, Wash- ington, D.C. 20408 (Tel.: 202-523- 3340). The document is one of the Spe- cial Research Histories (SRH) released by NSA and is numbered SRH-255. HEARD HERE OR THERE -That Nadya Ulanovskiy, wife of Ul- rich, one of the late Whitaker Cham- bers' controllers, has published in Is- rael a book about their life. -That Roy Berkley is doing an illus- trated spy guide of London town. -That author John Toland (Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath) has given up writing history and is now at work on a World War II novel. -That groups in both Canada and Great Britain are interested in setting up something like Roy Godson's Con- sortium for the Study of Intelligence which was accorded favorable ac- knowledgement by retired British marine Sam Pope in RUSI (September 1983), pp. 58-59. -That someone on the Senate appro- priations committee has blocked the appropriation for the Defense Intelli- gence College-only recently elevated from a school to a college-by asking, after the fact, "Why is it a college?" -That Houghton Mifflin Co. will be publishing the book being written by former Director of Central Intelligence Stansfield Turner. TO THE EDITOR Lund Studies in International History and will be published in 1984 by Swe- den's Lund University. The book is the result of an interna- tional conference held in 1979 to honor my effort to promote ARTSI, the Aca- demic Research, Teaching and Study of Intelligence. Chinese modesty makes me record only its appearance and con- tents. The book includes two essays on the 17th century: E. Opitz from Germany on diplomacy and secret communica- tions in the age of European absolut- ism, and mine on an Elizabethan vision of the role of the British secret service in Pax Britannica. Four essays deal with World War II: Germany's J. Roh- wer on radio intelligence in the battle of the Atlantic; Denmark's J. Hoestrup on intelligence in the European resis- tance movement, and J. Cederberg and G. Elgemyr from Sweden on Swedish- Finnish intelligence cooperation in the closing stages of the war. The last two essays deal with the future: W. Agrell from Sweden on patterns in the devel- opment of future national intelligence and J. Zitomirsky from the United States on historical intelligence as his- tory and intelligence. On another subject, some correc- tions in "Tito's 'Air' " (FILS, October 1983) are in order: V. Cenchich, the au- thor of The Kopinich Enigma, is still alive. Kopinich met Tito in 1935, and he established Tito-Moscow radio con- tact in early 1942. S. Dedijer Lund, Sweden CHRONOLOGY October 31, 1983 Sawatsky a Prize Winner John Sawatsky's For Services Ren- dered: Leslie James Bennett and the RCMP Security Service was given the Author's Award in Toronto, Canada, as the best nonfiction paperback book of 1983. The award, carrying a cash prize of $750, was made at the seventh an- nual awards dinner of the Periodical Distributors of Canada, who sponsor the awards through their Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Let- ters. Clio Goes Spying November 4, 1983 May I bring to your attention a book Proposed CSIS Killed in the works in Sweden? It records one For the present Canada has killed a more excursion of Clio, the muse of proposal to replace the Security Ser- history, into the field of intelligence. It vice of the Royal Canadian Mounted is Clio Goes Spying: Eight Essays on Police by a new Canadian Intelligence the History of Intelligence. Edited by Security Service (see FILS, October W. Agrell and B. Hult, A 0 1 Y M Wd 1 ReIkMep2O0?5x/0J7uf$8he6F4pR0R 011 Approved For'Release 2005/07/28: CIA-RDP93B011 94R0Q1000200009-0 cy was endorsed by 11 of 12 members of a special bipartisan Senate commit- tee, but the committee, tabling its report on Bill C-157, said almost every section of the bill needed amendments to ensure the writing of proper guide- lines and the protection of civil liber- ties. The bill will be revised and submit- ted to a new session of Parliament. November 17, 1983 Senate Endorses Museum The U.S. Senate unanimously passed Resolution No. 267 favoring the estab- lishment of a proposed National Histori- cal Intelligence Museum. See "An Intelli- gence Museum: Not 'Whether?' But 'Where?' ", p. 1). FOR YOUR CALENDAR May 29, 1984 In celebration of the 40th anniver- sary of the invasion of Europe in 1944 the Veterans of OSS are helping to organize an interallied Jedburgh Re- union to convene in Paris on May 29 and then to be followed later by regional re- unions. Jedburgh was the code name given to the three-man OSS/SOE teams which parachuted into France to help arm, train, and coordinate the ac- tivities of the French Resistance. (See Aug. 15-19 entry below.) July 13-21, 1984 The Consortium for the Study of Intelligence (CSI) will sponsor its third annual summer faculty seminar at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. The seminar, for college or university teachers of intelligence, aims to deepen knowledge of the intelligence process and product, improve the teaching of the subject, and promote professional contacts among scholars in the field. Approximately 25 candidates will be selected for the seminar. Applications must be returned to CSI by Feb. 17, 1984. Additional information and appli- cation forms can be obtained from Pro- fessor Roy Godson, CSI, 1730 Rhode Island Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 (Tel.: 202-429-0129). August 15-19, 1984 OSS veterans will cooperate with their French counterpart, "Amicale Ac- tion," in the latter's annual reunion. Thiswill be held in St. Raphael-Monteli- mar and will commemorate the D-Day landings and subsequent military ac- tions in the south of France. Both this celebration and the Jedburgh Reunion are part of the OSS veterans' continu- ing effort to promote ties among the al- C Next 2 Page(s) In Document Exempt Approved For Release 2005/07/28 : CIA-RDP93B01194RO01000200009-0 Approved For Release 2005/07/28 : CIA-RDP93B01194RO01000200009-0